Use Your Allusions?

Tuesday, a student played a song by Twenty One Pilots in class for a presentation, and this was the first time I heard the band and I told the students that Twenty One Pilots sounded a lot like Neutral Milk Hotel and the class said, "What?" and I had to explain to them about Neutral Milk Hotel and Jeff Mangum, and the next day one of the students, in preparation for "improv night," was dressed all in white: white shirt, white socks, white shorts, white tennis sneakers and a white headband and I told him he looked ready for Wimbledon and, once again, the class said "What?" and I had to explain to them about Wimbledon: the grass courts, the strawberries and cream, the fact that it's a tennis tournament . . . and I think I'm going to stop alluding to things in class, because it's too exhausting.

Lecky and Clarence are correct. I don't hear NMH in Twenty One Pilots, and everyone knows what Wimbledon is (even in NJ). I think Hillary's ivory pantsuit was a riff on Claire Underwood's ivory dress from Frank's state of the union speech where he sinks her run for Congress.

wow-- lots of information here-- i have only heard one twenty one pilots song and it definitely sounded like neutral milk hotel, i don't know about the rest of their oeuvre, but the youngsters like them.

sorry to step on the older hipsters' toes by comparing them to neutral milk hotel (who i love as much as any ageing hipster).

there was one girl who knew wimbledon is a tennis tournament, the rest of them had no clue. they were familiar with the super bowl, the world, series, and the world cup . . . i checked (but not the ryder cup). my curriculum is eclectic.